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Warren Henry Folks
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Warren Henry Folks B: 01/25/1920 in Ocala, Marion County, FL, son of Thomas Fleming Folks and Mina Ruth Colson and brother of Leon Folks. After Warren returned from the Korean War, serving in the Navy, he was in and out of the Veteran Hospitals, suffering from the metal unbalance that had been created. He under went several treatments, including shock therapy, which added to his fuel. He was the Uncle we didn't all talk about. He had two daughters, went through a divorce. And later, became a grandfather. After all that, Warren became active in the KKK and other political unrests. He ran his barber shop for 20 years, not always cutting hair. He would chase some down the street in front of his shop, while the police just watched. He ran unsuccessfully for the state senate, in 1988, and then for Governor of Florida in 1990. He did live in the Hogan Creek Towers for a time, until he was asked to leave. He resided in Jacksonville until his death 11/10/2011.
Warren Folks 1920 - 2011: Retired barber: was Jacksonville's face of segregation
Warren Folks, a retired barber, self-styled evangelist and the face of segregation in Jacksonville for several decades, died Thursday. He was 91. During what he called the “troubled ’60s, Mr. Folks became active in local politics, gaining notoriety as a die-hard segregationist. But by 1996, he was homeless after being evicted from Twin Towers, a primarily black Northside public housing complex, following complaints that he forced racist literature on residents and threatened employees. In 1981, Mr. Folks gained national attention when he persuaded California authorities to exhume the body of Florida executed murderer John Spenkelink. Mr. Folks claimed John was murdered before being strapped into the electric chair, but the Times-Union reported that autopsy results showed Spenkelink died from electrocution. During the 1990s, Mr. Folks attended City Council meetings in a camouflage hat and fatigues, but dropped out of the spotlight in recent years. Mr. Folks, who was born in Ocala in 1920, served in the U.S. Navy and owned a downtown Jacksonville barbershop for 20 years. He was a perennial candidate for office but lost every race he entered. His protest signs were familiar sights on Jacksonville streets, and his aggressive picketing resulted in numerous arrests for disturbing the peace. In 1975, he served a 150-day federal prison sentence after being convicted of disrupting discipline at Jacksonville Naval Air Station. In 1977, he was arrested after showing up in Mayor Hans Tanzler’s office with an unloaded shotgun but with two shells in his pocket. Mr. Folks told the Times-Union he was carrying the gun for protection. Mr. Folks, a district organizer for the National States Rights Party and a regional director of the Conservative Citizens Council, also protested rising electric bills in the 1970s and sought the impeachment of U.S. District Judge Gerald Tjoflat because of his student busing order. In 1976, he tried to stop U.S. marshals from destroying 420 pounds of apricot pits seized from a health food store after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said they were a health hazard. Mr. Folks said he adopted the cause for cancer victims who had tried and proven their worth. He told the Times-Union the marshals were engaged in a conspiracy to hide the kernels and suggested they might have eaten them. Eternity Funeral Home, 4856 Oakdale Ave., is in charge of arrangements. No public service has been announced and no survivors were specified. He did have two daughters.
3~Joseph J. Folks 1853-1905
4~David Solomon Folks 1857-1927
2~A Doyle Folks 1905-1985
3~Armand Peyre Folks 1907-1987
4~Mildred Folks Norvell 1910-1975
2~Lydia Folks
3~Julia M Folks
1~Thomas Mark Folks B: 07/13/1955 D: M: Yi-ping Tsai Folks B: 10/11/1973 D: Lives in Orlando, FL
2~Lydia Folks
3~Julia M Folks
Warren Folks, a militant segregationist who was charged with two counts of inciting a riot and another count of interfering with a lawful assembly in connection with civil rights demonstrations, was found not guilty on all counts by Municipal Judge John Santora.
Folks’ three arrests occurred in July, when he disrupted demonstrations led by Rutledge Pearson, state president of the NAACP.
After no other attorney would defend Folks, retired Circuit Judge William Maness agreed to represent him at the bench trial.
Maness was a well-known civil rights advocate and resigned from the court in 1963 to devote his time to the cause of equal opportunities for all people, regardless of race.
At one point in his argument in Folks’ defense, Maness described his client as “foolhardy,” but with a reason.
“Foolhardy? Yes, but for a cause he holds dear. A cause that shocks the sensitivity of all who hold human values high regardless of race, color or religious preference — a cause sparked by a belief that the white man, outnumbered though he may be, is ordained by God as supreme, superior to all other men,” he said.
“This may be the practice of many — and it seems to be, but it finds no support in democracy, and few openly admit their own prejudices or join this cause. The cause is not popular, but this court knows that the popularity of a man’s belief is not the test of criminal responsibility, nor for that matter, the test of his right to counsel,” Maness added.
As he announced his decision, Santora said he was ashamed of his fellow members of the Bar for not wishing to represent Folks.“I am happy that Judge Maness agreed to defend him, even though he disagreed with Folks’ views,” Santora said.
Video by Tom Metzger
Warren Henry Folks B. 01/25/1920 in Ocala, Marion County, FL, son of Thomas Fleming Folks and Mina Ruth Colson and brother of Leon Folks. Was in the U S Navy.
Jacksonvile addresses for Warren:
5470 Timuquana Rd Lot 31
5128 N Main St
621 W 44th St
106 E Adams St
Conservative Church of Christ, Inc Jacksonville, Florida
Officers
Warren H. Folks: President/Director
Walter D. Manhart: Secretary
William P. Maddox: Vice President
FL State Senate 7 ~ November 08, 1988
St. Sen. Arnett E. Girardeau: 46,736 (74.14%)
Warren H. Folks/Republican 16,305 (25.86%)
~ Republican Primary 1990 ~
| Republican primary results for Governor | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | |
| Republican | Bob Martinez | 460,718 | 69.00% | |
| Republican | Marlene Woodson Howard | 132,565 | 19.80% | |
| Republican | John Davis | 34,720 | 5.20% | |
| Republican | Andy Martin | 28,591 | 4.30% | |
| Republican | Warren H. Folks | 11,587 | 1.70% | |
| Totals | 668,181 | 100% | ||
Florida Times-Union on Nov. 13, 2011
Warren Folks, 91, passed away November 10, 2011. Eternity Funeral Home, 4856 Oakdale Ave., is in charge of arrangements. No public service has been announced and no survivors were specified. 4856 Oakdale Avenue, Jacksonville, FL 32207 (904) 348-5579.
The People speak on his passing...
Exec. Vice-President of Save American Inc. and KKK member, Warren H. Folks. The barber shop was located at Hogan and Forsythe, Jacksonville.
(Photo by Lynn Pelham/Time Life Pictures Getty Images) Jan 1, 1965
Self Portrait of Loyd Sandgren in one of his downtown Jacksonville, FL studios. 1950′sMemorial services will be Tuesday for Loyd Sandgren, a well-known commercial photographer who captured Jacksonville's changing times through the lens of his camera for 50 years. Mr. Sandgren died of natural causes Thursday at a Gainesville hospital. He was 84. The downtown Jacksonville resident suffered a heart attack about three weeks earlier, a family member said. Mr. Sandgren was a native of the tall-pines country of northern Minnesota who fell in love with the First Coast while serving in the Navy at Mayport Naval Station during World War II. He was assigned as Mayport's only official photographer. After the war, he began a decades-long ritual of heading out, camera in hand, to shoot just about any kind of photo that would pay the bills -- and many photos valued only by him. Mr. Sandgren often hit the streets on foot, as he did up into his 80s, getting to know Jacksonville up close and personal. It was the view he liked best. His perspective sometimes was nothing more than a window in his West Bay Street studio. He often just poked his boxy, big-format camera out a window and photographed the comings and goings of daily life. He also would slip out to the sidewalk and mix with a downtown that was more lively in those days. "Women wouldn't be seen without a hat, gloves and stockings," he recalled in an interview with the Times-Union in 1997. Mr. Sandgren acknowledged his proclivity for working with female models. That was a must for a photographer working to make ends meet in the '40s, '50s and '60s. "We used models to sell everything from typewriters to speedboats to industrial tools," he told the Times-Union. "You'd put a pretty girl in everything. I'm not sure things are so different now." But he had a spiritual side. One of his hobbies was collecting Bibles. He possessed a microscopic Bible, a 1-inch Bible, a mammoth 30-pound Bible and about 300 of various sizes in between. The son of career Salvation Army officers, he taught Sunday school and Bible classes for the organization.
Mr. Sandgren's survivors include his daughter, Carolyn Saunders of Jacksonville, a grandson and three great-grandchildren.
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